UPDATE: Two killed in Seattle news helicopter crash near Space Needle

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UPDATE: Two killed in Seattle news helicopter crash near Space Needle

Photo: KOMO via Twitter

SEATTLE – A news helicopter crashed Tuesday morning near the Space Needle in Seattle, killing both people inside the helicopter and critically injuring another who was in a vehicle on the ground, a spokesman for the Seattle Fire Department said.

The injured man, 37, freed himself from one of three vehicles that caught fire and was taken to Harborview Medical Center in critical condition with burns over 50 percent of his body, spokesman Kyle Moore, said.

A woman inside a second car was not injured and a man inside a third vehicle, a pickup truck, left the scene.